Football Manager 2018

No1newts · 13 Nov 2017 at 09:27

My Newcastle game my first 7 games;

City
ManU
Liverpool
West Brom
Arsenal
Chelsea
Huddersfield

I managed 2 wins (Liverpool & Hudd) 2 draws (4-4 against City and 2-2 West Brom) and lost the other 3 comfortably beaten by ManU and only lost 1-0 to arsenal and Chelsea.

Sitting 11th on 8 points but the league is daft. 12th is on 7 points. 13th-19th on 6 points. 20th on 5 points

Struggling to get a grip tactically at the moment but my one gripe is how highly strung players are. Yedlin got a 3 (yes 3!) against City before I hooked him at half time. I dropped him for 5 games (he played a cup game though) and he’s had a complete meltdown demanding to leave and in the media aggravating for a move :rolleyes:

gave a negative teamtalk and Atsu and Gayle are unhappy. You literally just need to praise players all the time and agree to all demands or you have a mutiny. It’s not a sim of management just a test of can you click the happy button every time. Rather frustrating.

davisdavid · 13 Nov 2017 at 14:24

I eventually finished 3rd with Newcastle on my now lost save (absolutely gutted) but I had a horrific start of only 9 points from first 8 games. Eventually got the team playing and scoring but conceding just as bad.

Sakho was available for 4 million from west ham so signed him at start of January and he scored 21 in 18. He's a beast again this year.

Had a takeover in October by Mike Ashley the second. £100 million in debt with loan repayments of 875k a month. Though finishing third resulted in a new transfer budget of £79 million.

It wasn't until the last two games if the season that the squad listened for team talks.

No1newts · 13 Nov 2017 at 14:53

I’ve Had the takeover mentioned with threats of being replaced by Juande Ramos

Gayle is beasting it for me so far, 8 in 7 games including a hat trick against City.

davisdavid · 13 Nov 2017 at 15:38

Ha I had the juande Ramos threat too. Hope it's changed from the beta

No1newts · 13 Nov 2017 at 17:29

Is there a decent face/badge pack out yet?

Edit: Blurgh they really need to tone down players complaining o this incarnation. Played 8 games and I’ve had a player who has started 4 complaining about lack of first team football and a backup player who has started 2 also complaining the same :rolleyes:

philstanbridge · 13 Nov 2017 at 18:22

sortitoutsi is where i get my facepacks etc from.

davisdavid · 14 Nov 2017 at 00:35

No1newts said:
Is there a decent face/badge pack out yet?

Edit: Blurgh they really need to tone down players complaining o this incarnation. Played 8 games and I’ve had a player who has started 4 complaining about lack of first team football and a backup player who has started 2 also complaining the same

FM scout. DF faces is the main one but there's a nice 11gb hexagon pack with 243,000 faces.

robmol · 14 Nov 2017 at 08:20

There's a little mod here that makes the regens a bit less pale, only had a quick look but it seems to do a good job

https://community.sigames.com/topic/418524-fm18-less-pale-newgen-players-modification/

philstanbridge · 14 Nov 2017 at 12:58

Yep, it works. I'm wondering now if the hair can be adapted into 3d models using whatever package. There must be a way to improve these things.

molinari · 16 Nov 2017 at 12:21

Anyone playing the FM 2018 Touch? If so, what's it like this year?

insideline · 16 Nov 2017 at 12:29

The match engine is really bad ins't it. Lost count of how many corners I give away because the opposition do a rubbish cross to no one which my keeper then parries out for a corner...

Literally happens 3-4 times a match.

philstanbridge · 16 Nov 2017 at 18:24

I think the match engine is an improvement.

davisdavid · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:08

philstanbridge said:
I think the match engine is an improvement.

So do I but it still isn't able to visually display the information correctly as the post above you suggests. Still get 'he certainly didn't mean that!' every game. It compensates with those shot / cross animations just as players still skate left and right when defending

insideline · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:16

davisdavid said:
So do I but it still isn't able to visually display the information correctly as the post above you suggests. Still get 'he certainly didn't mean that!' every game. It compensates with those shot / cross animations just as players still skate left and right when defending

Sorry im a bit confused, are you saying that what its showing me on screen isn't what actually happened ? I only use 2d view FYI

philstanbridge · 16 Nov 2017 at 21:31

I think what he means is that in the time scale of the match there is a certain amount of abstraction.

Matty8787 · 16 Nov 2017 at 21:39

So is this worth the buy? I skipped last year so would be coming from '16?

molinari · 16 Nov 2017 at 22:17

Matty8787 said:
So is this worth the buy? I skipped last year so would be coming from '16?

The same for me, and I'm trying to work out whether the match engine has improved enough to make a difference.

philstanbridge · 16 Nov 2017 at 22:19

I think it's worth it yes, but maybe only from 16. From 17 I don't think there's enough to warrant the upgrade, although there are a lot of changes in there, and a lot of bugs.

philstanbridge · 16 Nov 2017 at 22:21

You realise there's a demo? Try it.

davisdavid · 16 Nov 2017 at 22:39

insideline said:
Sorry im a bit confused, are you saying that what its showing me on screen isn't what actually happened ? I only use 2d view FYI

Sort of. I didn't explain myself well. I think the match engine fails to depict the game correctly still. The cross / shots are a good example in that the team is going to win a corner from the keeper parrying a shot but it depicts it as a cross and the text reads that the 'player didn't mean to do that' but the keeper tips it over the bar.

I'll see if I can find my gif I made of my keeper and defender having a mix up. I understand there was a mix up but the visualisation didn't do it justice and it looked really ****.